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  • Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief. while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it. -- William Shenstone
  • Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in the desert. -- Khalil Gibran
  • A zealous Savior ought to have zealous disciples. -- J. C. Ryle
  • I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing. -- Oliver Goldsmith
  • I've always been very zealous about not invading other people's private spaces. -- Peter Jennings
  • Pelagianism is the natural heresy of zealous Christians who are not interested in theology. -- J. I. Packer
  • Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety. -- Edmund Burke
  • Upon thy cheek I lay this zealous kiss, as seal to the indenture of my love. -- William Shakespeare
  • People are zealous for a cause when they are not quite positive that it is true. -- Bertrand Russell
  • When holy and devout religious men are at their beads, 'tis hard to draw them thence; so sweet is zealous contemplation. -- William Shakespeare
  • People will give themselves to prayer for numerous reasons, but at the core of it all is a God, raging with zealous desire. -- Mike Bickle
  • Scientists have long known that Darwinism is false. They have adhered to the myth out of self-interest and a zealous desire to put down God. -- Phillip E. Johnson
  • I remember a passage in Goldsmith's "Vicar of Wakefield," which he was afterwards fool enough to expunge: "I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing. -- Samuel Johnson
  • I beg you be persuaded that no one would be more zealous than myself to establish effectual barriers against the horrors of spiritual tyranny, and every species of religious persecution. -- George Washington
  • Again and again, I've seen Bush turn a blind eye as his henchmen have leveled zealous attacks against his political enemies - assaults which the president himself has sometimes directly encouraged. -- Paul Begala
  • The individual who violates the rules in a zealous search for an answer to the problem may overstep the bounds and thereby suffer the loss of his relationships to the organized medical profession. -- Morris Fishbein
  • It must be said in addition that the men with the most scrupulous respect for embryonic life are also those who are most zealous when it comes to condemning adults to death in war. -- Simone de Beauvoir
  • Chess is not for the faint-hearted; it absorbs a person entirely. To get to the bottom of this game, he has to give himself up into slavery. Chess is difficult, it demands work, serious reflection and zealous research. -- Wilhelm Steinitz
  • I do not know what has caused MacKinnon to become, and, more surprisingly, to remain, so obsessed with pornography, and so zealous for censorship. But let us not sacrifice our civil liberties on the altar of her obsession. -- Richard Posner
  • The president who is most slandered as Hitler will probably prove to be the most zealous advocate of democratic government abroad, the staunchest friend of beleaguered Israel, and the greatest promoter of global individual freedom in our recent memory. -- Victor Davis Hanson
  • Nothing could be more beneficial for even the most zealous searcher for knowledge than his being in fact most learned in that very ignorance which is peculiarly his own; and the better a man will have known his own ignorance, the greater his learning will be. -- Nicholas of Cusa
  • As far as party primaries are concerned, both Republican and Democratic Party primaries are dominated by the most zealous voters, whose views may not reflect the views of most members of their own respective parties, much less the views of those who are going to vote in the November general election. -- Thomas Sowell
  • Zealous in the commencement, careless in the end. -- Tacitus
  • Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief, while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it. -- William Shenstone
  • Be zealous. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
  • Living a daring life is zealous pursuit. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
  • May we be zealous for more of God. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
  • May you find grace to live zealous life. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
  • Chess is difficult, it demands work, serious reflection and zealous research. -- Wilhelm Steinitz
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  • Get shot down cuz your over zealous, play hard to get and females get jealous. -- Young MC
  • We begin our public affection in our families. No cold relation is a zealous citizen. -- Edmund Burke
  • The most zealous converters are always the most rancorous when they fail of producing conversion. -- Charles Caleb Colton
  • I'm pretty opinionated sometimes although my political views change all the time, too. So I'm not very zealous. -- Jay Roach
  • A just cause and a zealous defender make an imperious resolution cut off the tediousness of cautious discussions. -- Philip Sidney
  • A Hindu is a born mystic, and the luxuriant nature of his country has made him a zealous pantheist -- Helena
  • Leaders can only lead willing, preferably zealous followers so don't get too far out in front of your team. -- Nick Morgan
  • Words have less substance than air. Don't tell me about your zealous dreams, your firm convictions, your profound lov -- Richelle E. Goodrich
  • There are only three kinds of Christians when it comes to world missions: zealous goers, zealous senders, and disobedient. -- John Piper
  • To escape the curse of commoditization, a company has to be a game-changer, and that requires employees who are proactive, inventive and zealous. -- Gary Hamel
  • I like the fervor of religious music, the zealous aspect - that preachers can go from a conversational cadence into this passionate singing. -- Yannis Philippakis
  • Conquer evil people by gentle kindness, and make zealous people wonder at your goodness. Put the lover of legality to shame by your compassion. -- Isaac of Nineveh
  • In my judgment, a great mistake has been made by well meaning and zealous men, through treating error and infidelity with altogether too much respect. -- J. G. Holland
  • When challenged by a zealous Popperian to say how evolution could ever be falsified, J. B. S. Haldane famously growled: 'Fossil rabbits in the Precambrian. -- Richard Dawkins
  • People say that the Bible is a boring book...but they don't say that about Shakespeare, because the people who teach Shakespeare are zealous for Shakespeare. -- Malcolm Muggeridge
  • I think things changed as a result of a certain perception of our politics. When we went through our zealous, self-righteous period it didn't exactly win us any friends. -- Fred Frith
  • The children who are 'our future' will inherit a world created not just by parental devotion but by the sort of zealous, focused endeavors that can preclude good parenting. -- Virginia Postrel
  • My father had declared a predilection for heirs general, that is, males and females indiscriminately.... I, on the other hand, had a zealous partiality for heirs male, however remote. -- James Boswell
  • We want the active and zealous help of every man far-sighted enough to realize the importance from the standpoint of the nation's welfare in the future of preserving the forests. -- Theodore Roosevelt
  • The fear of Hell, or aiming to be blest, Savors too much of private interest. This moved not Moses, nor the zealous Paul, Who for their friends abandoned soul and all. -- Edmund Waller
  • I would have every zealous man examine his heart thoroughly, and I believe he will often find that what be calls a zeal for his religion is either pride, interest, or ill-repute. -- Joseph Addison
  • It is worth remembering one of the important lessons of the Buck story: a small number of zealous advocates can have an impact on the law that defies both science and conventional wisdom. -- Paul A. Lombardo
  • As for joy, as little as one can have of it in this life, experience shows that it is not the idle who possess it, but those who are zealous in the service of God. -- Ignatius of Loyola
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